There he met Georges Bataille and his friends Michel Leiris and André Masson, and was initiated by them into a wild night life.
Waldberg would chronicle those years in his novel La Clé de cendre (The key made of ashes), published posthumously in 1999.
[2] In the winter of 1939, Waldberg was invited by Georges Bataille to move in with him to his house in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a suburb of Paris.
In March 1940, Isabelle Farner gave birth to his son Michel Waldberg [fr].
Breton and his group printed a declaration condemning the show, ""Face aux liquidateurs", and then a subsequent pamphlet, "Cramponnez-vous à la table (Petite Suite surréaliste à l'affaire du Bazar Charpentier)".